Archibald Henry Grimké: “The Southern states had actually relapsed into barbarism.”

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.